Thomas Ball, who claimed to have been a party organizer in Deputy
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s former parliamentary seat,
questioned why the deaths were receiving so much media attention.

When angry Twitter
users said they had been “fighting for the likes of you,” he
responded: “There’s no British soldier fighting for
anything I believe in. Bunch of child killers.”

He went on to say that a majority of soldiers were
“racist, arrogant, undereducated thugs who join up for
the ‘thrill’ of killing humans,” and were
“protecting their country by bayoneting
10-year-olds,” in an apparent reference to an incident
last year, when Grenadier Guardsman Daniel Crook was dismissed
from the Army and jailed for 18 months after stabbing a
10-year-old Afghan boy in his kidneys with a bayonet, according
to Express.

Ball has now set his Twitter to private.

Opposition parties expressed their disgust and urged First
Minister Alex Salmond to crack down on the SNP “cybernats” or
“cyber nationalists,” who are known for relentlessly subjecting
their targets to verbal abuse.

"I’ve been to Afghanistan and met our soldiers who selflessly put
their lives on the line for our security. They deserve our
respect and admiration, not bile and criticism," said Willie
Rennie, the Scottish Liberal Democrat leader.

Ball, who initially claimed to be an “SNP activist” on his
blog, later
changed this to read “pro-independence activist” and denied being
a member of SNP.

The SNP also condemned Ball’s comments, saying he had no
connection to Nicola Sturgeon and that Ball had resigned hours
after his Twitter rant.